A lemon yellow Ford Capri, a splash of Hai Karate and a few smoke rings – dating must have been a breeze back in the Seventies. And nobody agonised over what to say in their online profile – if you saw Miss Pepsi Cola 1978 in the local disco, you had one shot at making an impression. “The end of civilisation,” raged an acquaintance recently, having joined – and left – within a 48-hour period. CHOOSIER CHAT-UPS Well, that’s where Tinder, as you’ll have probably heard, comes in.Maybe you paid for my coffee because you were in line before me and wanted to do something little to get my attention.Maybe you were listening to something I recognized because your headphones were cranked up so loud I could hear it while sitting next to you on public transit, so I asked you what else you like to listen to. We perhaps have known each other for some time and there’s always been a bit of flirting or sexual tension between us, but we think our friendship is more important than attempting to be sexual, so we waited a while, joking around sometimes about how funny it would be if we hooked up, all the while each of us wondering what the other look like naked.The lawsuit was the second time this month Clash was hit with allegations of a sexual relationship with an underage teenage boy.The new suit, filed by Cecil Singleton, claims he was just 15 when the award-winning voice of the beloved kids’ character seduced him. “He asked me if I might come to his apartment so he could give me a proper good-night kiss.Dearest Future Lover, I do not know if we have met yet. Maybe I walked by you in the street a couple of times before eventually smiling and stopping to chat briefly.